CVE-2008-3640: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the WriteProlog function in texttops in CUPS before 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

  • Apple Cups: up to and including 1.3.8; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; …

Published 2008-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.